2022-05-09 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2022-05-09 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 13 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Sat May 14 0000 Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue May 17 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Wrote some basic emacs notes for myself as I kept forgetting these and looking these up would take a lot of time in the dense manuals.
  • Emacs Important Shortcuts 2022_05_06_06:03:45 (06:55) C-x b, M-:, M-&
• Emacs configuration:
  • Nicolas P. Rougier's dotemacs (screenshot, Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • xah talk show 2022-05-07 look into emacs lisp string functions (01:14:10)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: fontaine version 0.2.0
• Dired:
  • Emacs for Professionals: "Batch file renaming" (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: My productivity system - implementation
  • Org mode - Insert timestamp in proposals (06:38)
  • org-imenu-filter to filter imenu-list with "regular" tags/properties expressions. (Reddit)
  • [ANN] org-ql 0.5 released; (Reddit)
  • #4 Org mode profiling meetup on Sat, May 7 - meeting notes (Reddit)
  • org-store-link… powerful and flexible | THIS IS EMACS (Reddit)
  • org-mode links everywhere, not only in org-mode buffers | THIS IS EMACS (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • PSA: ox-hugo will remove the option to export front-matter in YAML format in near future
    • Magnus: Comments and org-static-blog
  • Org Roam:
    • Making Connections in Your Notes (13:49, Irreal) - org-roam
    • How to rank your backlinks notes with Org Roam (Reddit)
  • Org development: ob-plantuml: Allow setting PlantUML args for jar file
• Coding:
  • Emacs for Professionals: "Browsing source code" (Reddit)
  • Org-capturing live Jira Issues (Reddit)
  • Flymake module for awesome-tray package (Reddit)
  • scripter.co | Emacs: Creating a patch file using Magit
  • Team Linguini: Emacs IDE (05:01)
• Fun:
  • Read the diminish.el source; got some unexpected literary edification. (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Making fan Doom Emacs logo for dashboard. Plan to make both Nord and Doom One versions. Any suggestions? and day 2
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: I am translating the Emacs TUTORIAL into Greek
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: 16x10%
  • Let's Give Emacs Another Look | Before TheLinuxCast 😎😅 (02:30:09)
• Other:
  • Mickey Petersen: The Emacs 28 Edition of Mastering Emacs is out now
  • New package: Clippo - Clipboard Manager via Emacs (currently, tailored only for yabai but support for other WM's shouldn't be too hard!)
  • Emacs for Professionals: "Emacs as a Shell" (not about shell-mode) about how Emacs is a shell in and of itself (Reddit)
  • flite mode demo: Text to Speech (TTS) using Festival Lite in Emacs (01:57)
  • New package image-roll! Improved document display engine providing continuous scrolling.
  • Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 28.1 for Windows (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel progress on feature/tree-sitter
  • Add support for the Sharada script
  • Add new user option table-latex-environment
  • Allow precision-scrolling nonselected windows when the minibuffer is resized
  • Add Greek translation of the tutorial
  • Add support for the Tirhuta script
  • Allow term-mode to send function keys to the underlying shell
  • Make 'delete-process' into a command
  • (dabbrev-completion): Fix bug#45768
  • Add support for the Kaithi script
  • Document the `x' DWIM action in the manual
  • Make `x' in package-menu-mode more DWIM
  • Allow dabbrev to ignore binary buffers
  • Allow inhibiting linkification in Help buffers
  • Avoid having font locking triggering unnecessary auto-saving
  • Char-fold quotation characters in info and Help
  • Add new helper macros for minor modes to restore variables
  • Turn on XInput 2 support by default
  • Add NEWS entry about incompatible sorting command behaviors
  • Add new macro with-buffer-unmodified-if-unchanged
  • Improve the behavior of concatenating parts of Eshell arguments
  • Return a list of numbers if all lines of an Eshell subcommand are numeric
  • Eshell variable expansion should always return strings inside quotes
  • Add new command 'package-update'
• New packages:
  • cpupower: cpupower command interface (GNU ELPA)
  • cue-mode: Major mode for CUE language files (MELPA)
  • evm-mode: Major mode for editing Ethereum EVM bytecode (MELPA)
  • le-thesaurus: Query thesaurus.com for synonyms of a given word (MELPA)
  • project-rootfile: Extension of project.el to detect project with root file (MELPA)
  • scholar-import: Import Bibtex & PDF from Google Scholar (MELPA)
  • sisyphus: Create releases of Emacs packages (MELPA)
  • timu-rouge-theme: Color theme inspired by the Rouge Theme for VSCode (MELPA)
  • tomelr: Convert S-expressions to TOML (GNU ELPA)

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